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veneer "onlays"
By:Eric Schade (shearwater Boats)
Date: 3/30/2000, 7:27 pm
In Response To: inlaying Pygmies (Chuck Bollong)

I've had all kinds of fun with inlays. Well, really on-lays i bond them right to the surface of the boat. Either plywood or strip.

I first skim coat the wood with epoxy then use epoxy or some other adhesive to bond the veneer to the deck, after some careful sanding and cleaning, I glass right over the decoration. With careful filling and sanding, you can hardly tell it is not inlayed.

I enclosed a link to the BULDING A PLYWOOD BAIDARKA page on my web site which shows some of my tricks.

The mallard duck pictured is one I made for Dick Gamble's Outer Island.

have fun--

--Eric

decorating my plywood Baidarka

Messages In This Thread

inlaying Pygmies
Chuck Bollong -- 3/30/2000, 3:18 pm
2 other methods
mike allen ---} -- 4/3/2000, 7:16 pm
Re: inlaying Pygmies
Jeff Warrick -- 3/31/2000, 7:52 pm
Re: inlaying Pygmies
Tony -- 3/30/2000, 7:39 pm
veneer "onlays"
Eric Schade (shearwater Boats) -- 3/30/2000, 7:27 pm
Re: inlaying Pygmies
Dean Trexel -- 3/30/2000, 5:06 pm